BlockRiley, Indiana
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Riley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47871. The Survey maps it on the Seelyville quadrangle. 238 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 564 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRiley grew from 221 to 238 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 221 | |
| 2020 | 238 | +17 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1941 USGS Seelyville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Seelyville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Seelyville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riley in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Lightning | Riley | $90,000 | Lightning struck a funeral home and caused extensive damage. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Riley | $1,500 | The Riley Fire Department reported a tornado traveling northwest through a field, west of the town of Riley. This tornado leveled a storage shed and downed several tree limbs at a residence off of East Gross Road, near State Road 159. This tornado was rated an EF-0 with associated winds around 80 mph. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riley | $1,000 | Multiple tree limbs of unknown size downed by thunderstorm wind damage. |
| June 2013 | Flood | Riley | $500 | Two inches of water was reported to be running over the road at Riley Road and State Route 46 due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riley | - | Power lines were downed by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riley | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakewood | 0.5 miles | 18 | |
| Keller | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Spring Hill | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Grange Corner | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| Woodgate | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Youngstown | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Swalls | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Allendale | 5.1 miles | 17 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Riley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1846981 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 442015. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.